This winter I WILL locate a winter wren. That’s my plan, anyway, with one of my goals for the year being to find some of the Boulder County birds that I have never seen. The boreal owl, which lives in ...

The little brown bird that we have long called the winter wren nests in forests across northern North America and Eurasia (plus a bit in North Africa). Because it is the only wren on the other side of ...

The winter wren is a misnamed bird, at least in our neck of the woods. Here, this bird is a spring wren phenomenon. The Red River Valley is pretty well established as a northward migration route for ...

A scratching in the leaves on a calm, cool dawn a couple of months ago diverted my attention from watching for deer to looking for the little mouse I suspected was foraging for breakfast. I focused my ...

Wrens are a small but outsized group of birds in Ohio. Only five species occur here (normally), but given their propensity for being chatterboxes, they can be conspicuous. Many readers host two ...